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Tranquillize

verb
(past & past part. tranquilized or tranquillized; pres. part. tranquilizing or tranquillizing)
1.
Make calm or still.  Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise.
2.
Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to.  Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise.



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"Tranquillize" Quotes from Famous Books



... assure you, a most agreeable surprise. I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during six thousand years as is wrought by the living in a single day. Retire within, Bertuccio, and tranquillize your mind. Should your confessor be less indulgent to you in your dying moments than you found the Abbe Busoni, send for me, if I am still on earth, and I will soothe your ears with words that shall effectually calm and soothe your ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... that followed her loss, the conscience I had so long sought to tranquillize became terribly reproachful. Louise had forfeited all right to my consideration, but my guiltless child had not done so. Did it live still? If so, was it not the heir to my fortunes,—the only child left to me? ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... many associations. Such influences have sometimes seemed to belittle those who are the subject of them, at the least to be likely to narrow the range of their sympathies. To Wordsworth, on the contrary, they seemed directly to dignify human nature, as tending to tranquillize it. He raises physical nature to the level of human thought, giving it thereby a mystic power and expression; he subdues man to the level of nature, but gives him therewith a certain ...
— Essays from 'The Guardian' • Walter Horatio Pater

... going thither, and might have planned to accompany her on her expedition, without having apprized her of any such scheme. And it might not be unlikely that in such a case they had been tempted to spend a few hours in the Pineta. And with these possibilities Signora Steno was obliged to tranquillize herself ...
— A Siren • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... rope and sacking down below," Dick said, after a moment's thought. "I think that they had better wrap him up in sacking, so that he cannot move his arms, tie a rope round him, and lower him down close by the side of the steps, my father coming down side by side with him, so as to speak to him and tranquillize him." ...
— In Times of Peril • G. A. Henty


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